Adams Church

The community around Adams Church

It takes 4.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Child Poverty: 44.0% (26.4–61.9%)
• Obesity: 42.0%
• Social Isolation: 34.6%
• Poverty Rate: 28.5% (17.4–39.6%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
• Food Insecurity: 22.6%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.7% (10.5–24.9%)
• Diabetes: 17.4%
• Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.9%
• Housing Insecurity: 16.0%
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.3%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Adams Church

• Pleasant Grove Church — 0.9 mi away in Smithdale, MS
• Temble Hill Church — 2.9 mi away in Smithdale, MS
• Mars Hill Baptist Church — 3.9 mi away
• Mount Gilead Primitive Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Smithdale, MS
• Smithdale Church of God In Christ — 4.9 mi away in Smithdale, MS
• Arlington Baptist Church — 5.1 mi away in Bogue Chitto, MS
• Concord Baptist Church — 5.8 mi away
• Oak Grove Primitive Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away in Smithdale, MS
• Spring Hill Baptist Church — 5.9 mi away
• Johnston Chapel — 5.9 mi away